100 Years of Jean Tinguely - That's Why Jean Tinguely Is Far From Part of the Old Iron

The Swiss revolutionized the sculpture and celebrated idleness in his art. His spirit continues to live in a Basel ghost train.

A great and elaborate legacy: how Jean Tinguely's work lives on – also in the form of a ghost train.

It has been 100 years since the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely was born. His poetic machines are world-famous. What is behind it all is less known Admittedly, it is not quite fair to reduce the extensive work of the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) to his post-Dadaist machines. Machines that produce nothing but the image of their mechanics, but later also sounds, drawings and even texts. Machines that move nothing but themselves; machines that…

The public is invited to take a ghost train ride to Basel to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jean Tinguely at the Museum which bears his name. Switzerland Augustin Rebetez and British Rebecca Moss made the route of the installation 'Scream Machines'.